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Kinda Serafi

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  • State University of New York at Buffalo, School of Law, J.D., 1999
    Publications Editor, Buffalo Law Review
    Recipient of Dale S. Marguiles Award for contributing the most to the law school and community

    Georgetown University, B.A., English, cum laude, 1996

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Kinda Serafi advises on the legal, policy and operational challenges of the Affordable Care Act, Medicaid, the Children’s Health Insurance Program, Marketplaces, and payment and delivery reform. She has significant experience implementing and analyzing federal health care programs for an array of clients, including state governments, foundations, providers, nonprofit agencies and IT vendors. In particular, she frequently leads complex multi-stakeholder engagement efforts.

Working with multiple state governments, Kinda provides strategic counsel, policy analysis and research support. Serving as an advisor to the Robert Wood Johnson’s State Health and Value Strategies program, she provides technical assistance to states on aspects of Medicaid implementation. For the CMS Medicaid and CHIP Learning Collaboratives, she is a subject matter authority on Medicaid eligibility and enrollment. Kinda guides states and Marketplaces on policy matters, including eligibility and enrollment, benefit design, delivery system improvements, and technology development.

Kinda advises states on Medicaid expansion design, implementation and sustainability, and has particular experience in State Plan Amendments and alternative expansion models through 1115 waivers. She has supported numerous states, including Arkansas, Louisiana, Maine, Montana, New Hampshire and Virginia, in their Medicaid expansion planning and implementation.

Prior to joining Manatt, Kinda served as the director of policy of the Children’s Defense Fund (CDF) in New York where she focused on developing strategies to secure the passage of legislation to simplify rules for a public health insurance program and to expand eligibility levels. She also worked for two years as the director of legal advocacy and organizing at the Lenox Hill Neighborhood House, where she launched and supervised a multidisciplinary civil legal services department. Earlier in her career, Kinda was a law guardian at the Legal Aid Society, representing abused and neglected children in all aspects of litigation in Bronx Family Court. She also served as the deputy director of programs and policy for the CDF in Washington, D.C.

Speaking Engagements

Speaking Engagements

Speaker, “Unwinding the Public Health Emergency and Implications for Integrated Service Delivery,” 2022 State HIT Connect Summit, Healthcare IT Connect, Baltimore, MD, April 18, 2022.

Speaker, “New State Guidance on Resuming Normal Operations After the Public Health Emergency,” State Health and Value Strategies Webinar, January 21, 2021.

Speaker, “Leveraging Medicaid to Establish Health Care Connections for Justice-Involved Populations,” American Bar Association 18th Annual Washington Health Law Summit, December 9, 2020.

Speaker, “Keeping Medicaid’s Promise: Strengthening Access to Services for Children With Special Healthcare Needs,” American Health Lawyers Association Webinar, March 5, 2020.

Speaker, “Leveraging Medicaid to Better Connect Justice-Involved Populations to Health Coverage and Care,” Beazley Symposium on Health Care Law and Policy, Chicago, November 15, 2019.

Speaker, “Using CHIP Dollars for Healthy Housing,” Green & Health Homes Initiative Executive Leadership Institute 2019, Baltimore, September 16, 2019.

Memberships

Memberships

Admitted to practice in the state of New York

Board Member, Community Food Advocates, 2010-present

Past Member, Committee on Family Court and Family Law, Association of the Bar of the City of New York, 2007-2009

Publications

Publications

Co-author, “The End of the Federal Continuous Coverage Requirement in MassHealth: Key Strategies for Reducing Coverage Loss,” Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts Foundation, April 2022.

Quoted, “Who Doesn’t Text in 2022? Most State Medicaid Programs,” Kaiser Health News, April 13, 2022.

Quoted, “Unwinding Medicaid's Pandemic Protections Won't Be Easy, Experts Say,” MedPage Today, April 1, 2022.

Author, “New CMS Guidance on Expectations for Unwinding Federal Medicaid Continuous Coverage,” Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s State Health and Value Strategies program, March 2022.

Quoted, “On the second anniversary of the pandemic, here’s why it’s so hard to cancel COVID emergency powers,” MarketWatch, March 9, 2022.

Co-author, “Text Messaging: An Important Communication and Outreach Strategy as States Unwind the Federal Medicaid Continuous Coverage Requirement,” Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s State Health and Value Strategies program, January 2022.

Co-author, “State Policy and IT System Strategies to Prepare for PHE Unwinding: Updating Medicaid Enrollee Address Information and Responding to Returned Mail,” Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s State Health and Value Strategies program, October 2021.

Co-author, “The Risk of Coverage Loss for Medicaid Beneficiaries as the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency Ends,” The Commonwealth Fund, September 2021.

Co-author, “MassHealth’s Role in Improving Health Outcomes and Recidivism Rates in Justice-Involved People,” Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts Foundation, June 2021.

Co-author, “The American Rescue Plan Act’s State Option to Extend Postpartum Coverage,” Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s State Health and Value Strategies, April 2021.

Author, “CMS Guidance to States on Resuming Public Health Program Operations Post the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency,” Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s State Health and Value Strategies, January 21, 2021.

Co-author, “Maintaining Medicaid and CHIP Coverage Amid Postal Delays and Housing Displacements,” Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s State Health and Value Strategies, September 18, 2020.

Quoted, “Telemedicine Struggles to be an Option for Everyone in the Wake of Coronavirus,” Quartz, March 20, 2020.

Quoted, “State Medicaid Plans Wrestle With COVID-19,” MedPage Today, March 17, 2020.

Quoted, “To waive COVID-19 copays, Medicaid must waive all co-pays: CMS,” Modern Healthcare, March 12, 2020.

Co-author, “State Medicaid and CHIP Strategies to Respond to the COVID-19 Public Health Crisis,” Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s State Health and Value Strategies Program, March 11, 2020.

Co-author, “Keeping Medicaid’s Promise: Strengthening Access to Services for Children With Special Healthcare Needs,” The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Lucile Packard Foundation for Children’s Health, October 1, 2019.

Co-author, “Leveraging Medicaid to Establish Meaningful Health Care Connections for Justice-Involved Populations Q&A,” Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, September 2019

Co-author, “State Strategies for Establishing Connections to Healthcare for Justice-Involved Populations: The Central Role of Medicaid,” The Commonwealth Fund, January 11, 2019.

Co-author, “Strategies for Connecting Justice-Involved Populations to Health Coverage and Care,” Department of Justice’s Bureau of Justice Assistance, March 2018.

Co-author, “Repeal of the ACA Provisions to Modernize and Streamline Medicaid Eligibility and Enrollment: What Would it Mean for States?” Robert Wood Johnson State Health Reform Assistance Network, March 2017.

Co-author, “Medicaid and CHIP Reimbursement Models for Language Services,” National Health Law Program, February 2017.

Co-author, “Leveraging CHIP to Protect Low-Income Children from Lead,” Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s State Health and Value Strategies program, January 2017.

Co-author, “Manatt on Medicaid: Ten Trends to Watch in 2016,” February 2016.

Co-author, “Manatt on Medicaid: Ten Trends to Watch in 2015,” February 2015.

Co-author, “Helping Consumers Enroll in Coverage: A State-by-State Analysis of Consumer Assistance Organizations and Funding,” KidsWellCampaign.org, funded by Atlantic Philanthropies, January 2014.

Co-author, “To Expand or Not to Expand: An Analysis of State Medicaid Expansion Decisions Across the Country,” KidsWellCampaign.org, Atlantic Philanthropies, December 2013.

Co-author, “Medicaid Expansion Under the Affordable Care Act,” BNA’s Health Law and Business Series, December 2013.

Co-author, “State Based Health Insurance Exchange Individual Eligibility Business Requirements Template,” Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's State Health Reform Assistance Network, August 2012.

Co-author, "Reasonable Compatibility Straw Models: Federal Requirements and State Options for Constructing a State's Financial Reasonable Compatibility Standard," Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's State Health Reform Assistance Network, August 2012.

Co-author, "Federal Requirements and State Flexibilities for Verifying Eligibility Criteria," Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's State Health Reform Assistance Network, February 2012.

Co-author, “Community Voices: Perspectives on Public Health Insurance from Two New York City Neighborhoods,” Children’s Defense Fund – New York, August 2009.

Author, “Review of New York State Public Health Insurance Policy Changes and Enrollment in 2008,” Children’s Defense Fund – New York, February 2009.

Author, “Simplifying New York’s Public Health Insurance Programs: Making it Easier for Families to Connect to Coverage,” Children’s Defense Fund – New York, January 2008.

Author, “Issue Brief: Public Health Insurance Policies That Influenced Child and Adult Enrollment in 2006,” Children’s Defense Fund – New York, December 2007.

Co-author, “Coordinating New York’s Medicaid and Food Stamp Programs: Making it Easier for Families to Access the Benefits They Need,” Children’s Defense Fund – New York, December 2006.

Kinda in the News

  • 03.09.22

    Serafi and Marks Quoted in MarketWatch on Access to Medicaid Health ...

    Manatt Health Partner Kinda Serafi and Senior Manager Jacqueline Marks were quoted in MarketWatch on the potential end of the COVID-19 public ...

  • 03.20.20

    Serafi Quoted in Quartz on Medicaid Reimbursements for Telehealth ...

    Manatt Health partner Kinda Serafi was quoted in Quartz on how states are accounting for the influx of Medicaid patients using telehealth ...

  • 03.17.20

    Serafi Quoted in MedPage Today on COVID-19’s Impact on State Medicaid ...

    Manatt Health partner Kinda Serafi spoke with MedPage Today on the impact that the President’s declaration of a national emergency in ...

  • 03.12.20

    Serafi Quoted in Modern Healthcare on Medicaid Guidance to States on ...

    Manatt Health partner Kinda Serafi spoke with Modern Healthcare on the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ recently released ...

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Kinda's Articles

  • 05.02.22

    The End of the Continuous Coverage Requirement in MassHealth: Key ...

    Like all states, Massachusetts received enhanced federal Medicaid funding under the Families First Coronavirus Response Act, the first major federal ...



  • 03.17.22

    New CMS Guidance on Expectations for Unwinding Federal Medicaid ...

    On March 3, 2022, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released a State Health Official letter, “ Promoting Continuity of ...



  • 02.07.22

    Texting: An Important Outreach Strategy as States Unwind Medicaid ...

    Currently, states are maintaining continuous enrollment of all Medicaid enrollees as a condition of receiving enhanced federal funding under the ...



  • 10.25.21

    State Policy and IT System Strategies to Prepare for the Unwinding of ...

    Currently, states are maintaining continuous enrollment of all Medicaid enrollees as a condition of receiving enhanced federal funding under the ...



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Kinda's Newsletters

  • 03.22.22

    New CMS Guidance on Expectations for Unwinding Federal Medicaid ...

    On March 3, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released a State Health Official (SHO) letter, “Promoting Continuity of ...

  • 10.27.21

    State Strategies to Prepare for PHE Unwinding: Updating Addresses and ...

    Currently, states are maintaining continuous enrollment of all Medicaid enrollees as a condition of receiving enhanced federal funding under the ...

  • 08.12.21

    Missouri’s Medicaid Expansion Update

    On August 10, 2021, a Missouri circuit court ruled that Missouri can no longer delay Medicaid expansion.

  • 05.03.21

    The American Rescue Plan Act’s State Option to Extend Postpartum ...

    The American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 establishes a new state option to extend Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance Program coverage for ...

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Kinda's Events and Webinars

  • 10.27.20

    Supporting Children and Youth with Special Healthcare Needs During ...

    How Can Child Advocates and Families Ensure Medicaid-Enrolled Children and Youth with Special Healthcare Needs Receive the Services They Need During ...



  • 06.20.18

    Children With Special Healthcare Needs in Medicaid Managed Care

    Join us for a new Manatt webinar, the second in our Medicaid managed care series. States are increasingly enrolling children with complex ...



  • 07.20.16

    Webinar: “Manatt on Medicaid” Series

    Click Here to Register for Our Medicaid Managed Care Program—and Here for Our Medicaid LTSS Program. Click H ere to Access Our ...



  • 07.20.16

    "Manatt on Medicaid" Webinar Series: The New Managed Care Rules and ...

    Medicaid continues to gain scale and importance—both as the leading source of health coverage for Americans and a driver of reform in the ...



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